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MITTEN 0R GLOVE. No. 286.738. Patented Oct. 16, 1883...

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON B. SLAYTON AND \VILLIAM D. WELLS, OF ALFRED CENTRE, N., Y.

SPECIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,738, dated October16, 1883.

Application filed October 25,1882.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, NELSON B. SLAYTON and WVILLIAM D. WELLs, bothcitizens of the United States, and residents of Alfred Centre, Alleganycounty, New York, have jointly invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Reversible Mittens or Gloves, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates most particularly (but not necessarily) to thatclass of handcoverings known as harvest-mittens, which are employed byfarmers to protect their hands These are always out from some suchmaterial as canvas or leather, and are never knitted. They have alsobeen made reversible, as illustrated in the patent to N. B. Slayton, ofAugust 22, 1882, No. 263,067, and the construction herein described isan improvement on that set forth in said patent. As stated in saidpatent, the object of the reversible glove or mitten is to enable thewearer to change the gloves from hand to hand when the palms becomeworn, thus bringing the backs of the gloves to the front, as will bewell understood. In said patent, however, it was intended to employ athumb-fourchette, one-half of which was attached to each half of themitten or glove by sewing, and the mitten or glove was then finished bysewing together the margins of the two halves so constructed. In ourpresent construction we dispense entirely with the thumb-fourchette bycutting the material so that the thumb will properly spring out from thebody or palm, thus simplifying and cheapening the constructionmaterially, which is a very important point in the manufacture of suchgoods. WVe also cut out the thumb independently of and'separately fromthe body portion of the mitten, and stitch it on, as will be hereinaftermore fully explained. This construction effects an important economy inthe material, as the thumbs may be out from the lesser parts or scrapsof the leather, canvas, or other material used. The mitten may have onefinger or no finger, as desired, or all of the fingers may be used, asin any glove. Our present invention does not relate to the constructionof the fingers particularly, but to the thumb, the object being to avoidthe use of a thumb-fourchette, in a glove or mitten made from leather orother like sheet mate- (No model.)

that it will set to any hand without reference to the normal shape ofthe glove or mitten. These, however, are entirely unsuited forharvest-work.

The first two figures of the drawings are adapted to illustrate ourinvention as applied to a mitten with no finger, and having the thumbmade in one piece, but cut out separately from the palm port-ion. Thisis the preferred mode of construction. All of the figures illustrate theconstruction of the mitten without a thumb-fourchette.

Figure 1 shows a half of a mitten-body, two of which are required forthe mitten, and the thumb out in one piece, separately from the body.Fig. 2 shows sucha mitten completed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 33 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view of a half-mitten and halfthumb, showingthe mitten provided with one finger. This is designed to illustrate thecutting of the thumb in halves instead of in' one piece. Fig. 5 is asimilar view to Fig. 4, il1ustrating a slightly-modified construction ofthe same.

Referring, now, to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, Ais the half of the mitten-body,andB is the thumb. This thumb is composed of a thumb proper, a, which,when the thumb is j oined to the body, stands off free from the same,and an inferior extension, b, which, when the thumb is joined to thebody, forms a part of the wrist portion of the mitten. The edge 0 c onthe body A, and inferior portion of thumb B, respectively, are cut of acurved or concave shape, by preference, so as to give the proper springto the thumb and mitten-wrist. Each half of the body A has aprolongation or extension, (I, by preference, which virtually forms apart of the thumb in a finished mitten, and serves to give a betterspring to the thumb at its junction with-the body. This projecting partis out (see Fig. 1) so as to stand off at an obtuse angle, as shown.

In constructing the mitten the edges 0 of the halves of the body aresewed to the opposite edges, 0, of the thumb. The thumb is folded at itscenter along the dotted line shown, and the mitten then closed with aseam all around its margin, except, of course, the outer edge of thethumb. The mitten then presents the appearance of that shown in Fig. 2.\Vhere leather is employed we prefer to employ a welt or strip in makingthe seam. In Fig. 4 I have shown the same construction, except that thethumb in this case is made in two pieces, as it the thumb shown in Fig.1 were split on the dotted line. The projection (Z is also, in part,omitted from the body A and the omission supplied by fullness on thethumb. The cl osing-seam in this case does not extend out so far on thethumb, and the spring of the thumb is less perfect. In Fig. 5 theconstruction is the same as that in Fig. 4, except that the edge e ofthe thumb is cut straight and the back or outer edge of same curved. Inall of the forms the thumb-fourchetteis omitted, the cut at the point dbeing of such a nature as to give the thumb the proper spring withoutit, which is one of the leading features of our invention.

\Vhere the thumb is cut separately from the body, it is not absolutelynecessary that the part I) should extend entirely down to the wristopening; but the construction is much preferred, as it straightens theseam, gives a better shape to the wrist, and makes in all respects abetter fitting glove.

Ve are aware that leather mittens have been made withoutthumb-fourchettes but, so far as we are aware, these have been cutentirely different from our herein-described mitten, no adequateprovision having been made for giving the thumb the prop er set andspring, which is intended to be effected by the fourchette. In some ofthese constructions the front half of the thumb is cut with thehalf-mitten and with the tip pointing downward. In closing the glovethis part is turned or folded back, thus making a wrinkled fold at thefork or crotch. In other forms the front of the thumb is cut out andsecured by lacing to'the body gscyms of the glove. In this case noprovision is made for the spring at the crotch of the thumb, which isnecessary to secure a fit.

Having thus described our invention, we do not herein claim, broadly, areversible mitten.

tens and gloves cut by pattern from sheets of fabric similar to leatheror canvas.

\Vc claim as our invention 1. A mitten or glove cut from leather orother similar fabric, and comprising the two halves A of the body,provided with projecting parts (I at the crotch, and the thumb B, cutseparately from the body and united thereto by sewing together the edges0 and c, and then closing together the two halves of the mitten or gloveby sewing around the margin, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination,to forln a mitten or glove of leather or othersimilar fabric, of the two halves A, provided with projecting parts (Iat the crotch, the thumb 13, cut in one piece, and provided with aprolongation, I), and the edges of the body and thumb c and 0,respectively, cut concave as shown, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

NELSON B. SLAYTON. \VILLIAM D. \VELLS.

Viinesses:

WILL. H. GRANDALL, A. E. CRANDALL.

